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I was trolling through eBay looking for some early dev tools, and came across this lot. It's $35. Encore systems is the team that wrote MacWrite. I don't know what "Glass" is. A top secret project? Nothing interesting at all? Who knows. Some of the disks have LisaList, etc., on them. They could...

I recently found a book called under the apple, which is an early Mac book about all the wonderfulness that can be achieved by using desk accessories. This is pre-switcher/multifinder era. It has a chapter on developer tools, and some of these look like they would be pretty helpful. I can't find...

I've been using my Mac Plus a lot lately, and also my Amiga 3000 with A-Max emulator. I have an SE/30 that works almost perfectly, lost the serial ports to old age apparently, and while it's nice, I love my Plus, the old mouse, and the old (128) keyboard. But using it with the 68030 powered...

I bought some old Mac magazines from a guy yesterday whose wife had been a huge Mac fan. We were talking and he mentioned she had a Mac with a suitcase handle. I thought that had to be a portable. I’ve never actually seen a portable in real life. She had a 512k (not upgraded to Plus), a plus...

My Mac Plus has been having some hardware issues. Screen would stay black for 30 mins or so, until it warmed up. Fixed that finally this morning by reflowing about 15 joints. Floppy lost its gear, and burned out something in the ejector motor. Haven't fixed that, but swapped in a floppy from an...

Somebody call up the University of Michigan FTP admin -- new INIT inbound! For anyone who uses Mac 128 or Mac Plus keyboards, and just wants cursor keys, or for anyone with a say a IIGS style keyboard who wants cursors that aren't in a straight line, or for anyone who uses MacWrite as their...

I'm working on a system 6/7 serial tool. I'd like to use Basilisk II for testing. I have most recent versions of BII and BII GUI, but I can't figure out how to get a connection going between the basilisk II emulated mac's serial ports and my modern, host Mac. I've tried various tty paths (eg...

I'm trying to get a good cross-compile environment set up to write 68K Mac apps from my modern Mac (OS: Big Sur). I've tried 3 IDEs so far, with mixed, but distinct results. Curious about others using Retro68, and their experiences. Hopefully this will be helpful to me, and also anyone coming...

I'd like to have a watched directory on my modern Mac, and on my Mac Plus, which syncs itself with very little effort from me. (Given non-multitasking nature of the Plus/OS 6, I think user will have to take the action of starting the sync tool and letting it run; not sure how well it will...

I have been doing some dev on my Plus recently, with 6.0.8. One thing I miss is a DragThing type dock, or any kind of customizable launcher for my favorite apps. There are lots of choices for 7.5+, and I think even for 7.1, but I haven't found much for 6. I came across this reference to Now...

I'd like to make my Mac Plus more useful/pleasant-to-use. I use an original mac 128 keyboard on it, not the bigger Plus keyboard. So: no cursor keys! I have used a mac (original) keyboard on my modern macs with an adapter. I can program layers/etc and basically set up cursor keys that fire when...

I have been upgrading a couple of old Amigas with accelerators. You can get new 68030s boards running at 45/50Mhz (there are actually TWO different providers I'm aware of) with gobs of memory, options for drop in and card slots, etc. You can also get a FPGA based "68080" drop in replacement CPU...

Imagine, for a moment, a drop-in CPU replacement for your 68K mac that brings it to 500-800Mhz, AND adds 128MB of RAM. Without, hopefully, a case mod. Compatible with legacy 68K software. Running 6.0.8 (and newer if you insist). $500-ish.  Would that be interesting? To be clear: it doesn't...

Hi All, I have been playing around with Lightspeed 5 inside Minivmac, and it “works” fine, and really quite nice. It's just a bit painful not having a modern editor, etc. So I was happy to see there was a cross-compiler, Retro68.  I use cross-compilers to do C and assembly with my 8 bits, and...

Hi All, I finally found a Lisa (2/10) recently, in non-working condition. I made some progress: I got it to power on, identified that one of the 2 memory boards is bad, cleaned the floppy and got it to receive and eject disks, got the the HD to spin up (that took some doing), but I can't get...